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Light of the Moon
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Luanne Rice (Goodreads Author)
New York Times bestselling author Luanne Rice transports readers across the sea in this moving, magical tale of a lonely woman with a promise to keep. Set in a landscape of stunning natural beauty, Light of the Moon is a chronicle of mothers and daughters, friendship and family, and an electrifying love that illuminates a path through heartbreak and loss…and will shine in ...more
Hardcover, 386 pages
Published
January 29th 2008
by Bantam
(first published 2006)
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I tried really hard to like this story and by the end I did... but it took the touching end to really like it. The characters were pretty realistic and I cared about them, but I didn't feel like I got to know the main guy, even with part of the novel written in his POV. I really liked Susannah (hate the name and the "Oh, Susannah" that was thrown in there - not sure if Rice noticed that one!). She was kind and independent and real. I cared what happened to the poor, damaged teenage...more
A romantic novel, I guess I have to admit. I had a hard time putting it down as the story involves many things I can identify with: a young girl who feels abandoned by her mother, beautiful, magnificent horses, gypsies, an anthropology professor, and a journalist. Located in the south of France, where people know about and worship the Black Madonna. Many different threads and underlying stories and conflicts. Fascinating how simple acts are healing.
I don't normally read romance... that being said the themes, obvious and underlying spoke to me and where I am at in my life. I had the hardest time putting this book down, and read it with lightening speed. It's not one I'm likely to re-read ever... but it was an entertaining read.
Light of the Moon was a great book. I was impressed that I appreciated the story even though there was no physical romantic description, which until reading Light of The Moon, I’d never encountered before. I also liked that it wasn’t a typical romance in the way that there was so much plausible trauma that the characters had to overcome; the daughter’s mental illness from being not only abandoned by her mother, but by also being brutally injured as well. I’m rarely actually angry at character...more
I've read many Luanne Rice books over the years (probably should try to go through and review them on here) and some of her books are great and others are just good. For me this book falls into the good category. I thought the story itself was good but for me the relationship between the two main characters seemed rushed and over the top. I do like how this author doesn't just look at the relationships between men and women but between friends, children, and family and how it shapes who and wha...more
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I listened to this book on tape awhile back and was completely taken by it -- unfortunately I had to return it before it was done so was delighted when I received it as a gift -- it brought the characters to life and I felt more empathy to those who worked through their situations and came out on the other side stronger and more blessed. I wished that the author would have made the story surround the Gypsy culture more rather than the 'perfect' love story of Grey and Susannah. It bothered me t...more
How did I get tricked into reading a romance novel? I'll tell you - the author lured me in with a main character who is (supposedly) an anthropologist. Unfortunately the best word to describe this book is "hokey."
First of all, no anthropologist worth her salt would use the word "exotic" as much as the main character Susannah does. I didn't believe for a second that she was actually a cultural anthropologist. The post-modern world of anthropological academia ha...more
First of all, no anthropologist worth her salt would use the word "exotic" as much as the main character Susannah does. I didn't believe for a second that she was actually a cultural anthropologist. The post-modern world of anthropological academia ha...more
I loved listening to this book. The story is about a woman who loses her mother and goes to the Camargue in the south of France to find the saint (Sarah La Kali) who helped her mother get pregnant with her. I loved the beauty of the Camargue. Luanne Rice describes it so well with the white horses and wet marshes. I loved the spirituality of the gypsies, the Romanies, who worship Sarah and have a woman's circle to honor her.
Reading the story made me want to get on a plane and fl...more
Reading the story made me want to get on a plane and fl...more
I enjoyed this novel very much. There are a lot of great complex characters and each has their own story for the reader to discover. I appreciate that Rice's characters have many layers. Even characters you believe are horrible people have their own story to make you sympathetic towards them. As with every Luanne Rice book I have ever read it takes place near the sea. The setting of the French Camargue, home of the beautiful white horses, was fascinating. I loved her descriptions of the ar...more
Really 2.5 stars.
This was a pretty good book about an anthropologist who goes to France to do some research and to recover from her mother's death. There she meets a rancher who works with the famous white horses of Camargue and his daughter who has been suffering since her mother ran off five years ago. Includes lots of interesting anthropological/archeological information about the area and features detailed descriptions of the Camargue setting. However, the ending was absolutely terribl...more
This was a pretty good book about an anthropologist who goes to France to do some research and to recover from her mother's death. There she meets a rancher who works with the famous white horses of Camargue and his daughter who has been suffering since her mother ran off five years ago. Includes lots of interesting anthropological/archeological information about the area and features detailed descriptions of the Camargue setting. However, the ending was absolutely terribl...more
I was captivated by this sad, emotional, gripping tale of past hurts and finding love even in the depth of despair. Grey, Sari, and Susannah each faced their own uphill battles, but in finding each other, they discovered healing and hope. I couldn't feel much sympathy for Maria, but I tried to find understanding and at least respect for her willingness to overcome the past and start again with Sari. I would love to read a future book with Sari and Laurant as the focus. I believe theirs will...more
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If I'm going to go anywhere, away from my daily grind of driving to work and counting beans and reconciling accounts, I might as well go to the south of France and ride a white horse through a grassy marsh with black bulls and pink flamingos. And dive to a cave in the Mediterranean to see ancient paintings where I kiss a rugged rangy guy. Right? Plus my fantasy personage is a lovely intellectual anthropologist who publishes her research in scientific journals, is pursued by a professor from Stan...more
Fun vacation read. In the classic style of LuAnne Rice a very warm and fuzzy story of a woman excaping her past and getting out of a stagnant relationship. She takes a trip to the French Camargue and meets a man and his daughter with problems of their own. In the gothic romance style the three help to heal each others wounds. Facinating is the information and history of gypsie people and the story surrounding their saint "Sarah." This book is an easy read and a nice way to spend a rain...more
CIP: Spurred by her mother’s dying wish, Susannah Connolly has traveled from her lifelong home on the Connecticut shoreline to the fabled French Camargue, to see its famous white horses and find a mysterious saint linked to her family’s history. An accomplished anthropologist, Susannah has always been confident of her ability to navigate anywhere on the globe. But in the wake of a failed love affair and grieving the loss of her mother, she is adrift and uncertain, seeking only time alone to dig ...more
Romance abounds in this beautifully written story as does a bit of suspense and misunderstanding.
Susannah travels to France shortly after the death of her mother in fulfillment of a promise she made to her earlier. The area of France that Susannah travels to is rich with gypsy culture, magical white horses, and a very traumatized 13 year old girl. While Susannah is trying to find her bearings once again she falls in love with Sari's father and tries to help her get past her trauma.
Susannah travels to France shortly after the death of her mother in fulfillment of a promise she made to her earlier. The area of France that Susannah travels to is rich with gypsy culture, magical white horses, and a very traumatized 13 year old girl. While Susannah is trying to find her bearings once again she falls in love with Sari's father and tries to help her get past her trauma.
This is the first book I have read by Luanne Rice and I was pleasantly surprised. Initially, I was afraid it was just your typical romance story with all of the predictable scenes. Rice spun a wonderful tale with lots of interesting material about the history of the French Camargue, tying in gypsies, curses, white horses, a mother's dying wish, a family torn apart, and on top of that, romance. I especially enjoy it when I feel like I have learned something after I read a book.
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A gentle easy read. Perhaps a little too idealistic, sacrificing depth for a feel-good story. It lacks the darker shadows that would make the happy ending more satisfying by contrast. I think I expected a little more depth, but really it's just a romance without the sexuality and dark intrigues common in romances these days. However, it read well, and kept my interest. Not sure it will be memorable, though. It's my first book by Rice, and I would certainly try another one.
Gypsies came from India to Egypt and gypsy is a dirivative of Egypt. Rom (Romany) means "human". Patron saint is Sarah (Sara-la-Kali) the black servant girl from Egypt who came to Stes.Maries-de-la-Mer (on the Gulf of Lions, the Camargue in Provence, France) with the three Marys,(Mary Magdalene, Mary Jacoby, Mary Salome) Martha and Lazarus in 45 AD. Bones of two old women found in 1449, possible Christ's aunts, Mary J and Mary S.
This was an okay book was a little drawn out in places but I like Luanne Rice as an author in general. It is about a a mother who ends up leaving her daughter because of things that she feels she can't control, a daughter who suffers a tremendous blow throughout her life because of her mothers leaving her. A father who is left to pick up the pieces and a women who comes and helps to pick up the pieces of this broken family.
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This is a story of Susannah Connolly who takes a break from her everyday life to travel to Camargue to see the famous white horses and finds Friends and Love a a new outlook on life. It is well written and as other books I have have read it is a good story with well rounded characters and a little bit of mystic and magic in the relationships; with little or no objectionable material. I recommend it.
Wow this was a good book. I didn't want to put it down. I'm generally skeptical of adult fiction because I've encountered some very inappropriate stuff but this book was pg-13. I didn't have to stop reading it. The story of Grey's daughter and her mother was the most pwerful to me. I cried like a baby at the end.
I have read a few of Luanne Rice's books, my daughter and I agree this a probably her best one. She paints a good picture of surroundings and landscapes with her words, and the historical info re: Gypsies was fasinating. It's a good story and I found myself anxious to pick it up again each time I needed to stop reading.
The only reason I finished this book was because of the description of the Camargue region of southern France. But really, not worth the time. The author continually repeated herself. What did she think, we hadn't heard it the first time? Or was it trying to stretch a short story into a full-length novel?
This was a sweet read about a young anthropologist who travels to France to study a gypsy saint. The descriptions of nature were wonderful and the characters were well defined. I had trouble understanding the character of the mother who left her daughter and found it somewhat unconvincing that a group of gypsy women could so readily accept Susannah but had never been able to accept the gypsy mother's husband. Nevertheless, the book was an enjoyable read.
This was an okay read. It is set in France for the most part, and has a romantic spin to it. I did find myself annoyed with the young girl though. I was also a little annoyed with the story and how the main characters didn't really fight for what they wanted. They seemed to give in and become enablers to the little girl. Okay ending. Not my favorite by this author though.
I really liked this. I was ready to put it down if it started getting sexy cause I'd never read Luanne Rice before. I don't know what her other stuff is like. I missed some chapters on my audio book on acccident so maybe something happened there that I don't know about, but the parts I read were fine!
I'm not usually into romance novels, but this story had so much more than romance to it. Yes, there were some long spots. However, the characters were strong (and acted thier age), which I greatly appreciate in a book! And, of course the scenery (in my mind) was breathtaking. Therefore, I thoroughly enjoyed this book!
It had horses, and gypsies and a fish out of water story along with the stranger who comes to town who is the only one that can resolve hertofore unresolvable problems, themes of redemption, overcoming loss....It was jam packed with so many things I'm a sucker for but it was, finally, a romance novel.
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Luanne Rice is the author of thirty novels including the forthcoming Little Night (Viking/Pamela Dorman Books.) Five of her books have been made into movies and mini-series, twenty-two have been consecutive New York Times bestsellers and two of her pieces have been featured in off-Broadway theatre productions. She divides her time between New York City and the Connecticut shoreline.
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